On this day in 1886, the Great Southwest Railroad Strike began, involving more than 200,000 workers throughout the Southwestern United States.

The strike began when an agreement between the Knights of Labor and Union Pacific to give notice and investigate all firings was violated where a Knight named Charles A. Hall in Marshall, Texas was fired for attending a union meeting on company time. In response, te District Assembly #101 of the Knights called a strike.

Within a week, more than 200,000 workers were on strike throughout Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Texas, paralyzing railway lines with both inaction and sabotage.

At least nine people were killed in conflicts between police and crowds of striking workers. On April 9th in East St. Louis, eight deputies guarding a freight train shot into a crowd of strikers, killing six bystanders. The crowd responsed by setting the rail yards on fire.

After two months of protest, the strike was called off on May 4th without the workers winning their demands. The failure of the strike led directly to the collapse of the Knights of Labor and the rise of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).

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    • Melon [she/her,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      I haven't checked out much of anything about him (other than how he doesn't think class reductionism is real), is there more from him that demonstrates that he's little more than a useful idiot for fascists or blatantly a Nazbol?

        • Melon [she/her,they/them]
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          4 years ago

          so he's an antisemite, uncritical Ba'athist stan, and holocaust denialist?

          I somewhat sympathize with pan-Arab folks though since many hop on that train out of the hopes of having some kind of powerful union that could permanently boot Western imperialism from the Middle East, even though that movement definitely attracts some incredibly racist and genocidal people.